The trouble with or nemesis to a constitution is as time ebbs on, future generations and their understanding or interpretation of the originator’s intent becomes either something less or something more than originally intended, and it’s usually the latter.
The founder’s grandparents were of a generation that dunked witches in water in order to divine their purity.
Fast forward to today, and we find that hardcore pornography is protected free speech under the First Amendment. This is hardly what the founders intended as a kind of speech deserving of a protection clause, especially when considering what kind of puritan moral code prevailed in said times.
I can appreciate your due diligence in providing the foundations to your contentions regarding the definition of a citizen. THAT isn’t my point at all. It’s the higher bar set for ONLY two positions in government- only two, no matter the size of the population or the size of the government. The bar was elevated to the highest “loyalty” criteria permitted, under the freshly conceived form of government.
Anywho- the courts are filled with fallible humans (judges) creating ever unconstitutional, and might I add fallible laws, and we the people whom have remedy to elect others in their steed, are asleep at the wheel. Unfortunately and further, incumbency has powerful benefits and voter apathy is rampant.
I am already concerned that Senator Ted Cruz just might be the conservative with the best chance to unite all the various conservative factions and stop a Hillary Clinton presidency and his birth in Calgary to a Cuban-born father could derail his candidacy.
Paraphrasing Sir Winston Churchill: our messy, fallible, flawed system is the worst, except when it is compared to all the other systems that exist or have existed.
Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr (tried for treason but acquitted) were natural born citizens.